Intuitive Eating and How I Work With Clients

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Intuitive Eating is a non-diet approach that reconnects me—and my clients—with our body’s innate wisdom and cues to guide eating and the way we relate to food. It’s about relearning the wisdom of your body and letting go of guilt, moral judgments, and rigid rules around eating. This process is transformative for both mental and physical wellness. It’s a lifelong practice, not a diet, and there’s no right or wrong way to do it.

I’m deeply grateful to Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch for creating the Intuitive Eating framework—it’s a roadmap to listening to our bodies, enjoying our food, and being kind to ourselves.

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The framework is made up of 10 guiding principles:

1. Reject the Diet Mentality

2. Honor Your Hunger

3. Make Peace with Food

4. Challenge the Food Police

5. Discover the Satisfaction Factor

6. Feel Your Fullness

7. Cope with Your Emotions with Kindness

8. Respect Your Body

9. Movement—Feel the Difference

10. Honor Your Health—Gentle Nutrition

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Benefits of Intuitive Eating can include:

• Reducing binge eating and cravings

• Supporting weight stability and finding your natural weight

• Improving connection to hunger and fullness

• Protecting against eating disorders and internalized weight stigma

• Supporting positive body image and self-esteem

• Improving metabolic markers like blood glucose, blood pressure, triglycerides, and HDL

• Promoting higher diet quality and overall well-being

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How I Work With Clients

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When I work one-on-one, my goal is to amplify your body cues and help you trust your innate wisdom. We don’t follow the 10 principles in a strict order. Instead, I take a person-centered approach—using the framework as a guide while bringing in other tools as needed and focusing on what’s most relevant to you in the moment.

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I’ve helped hundreds of clients heal their relationship with food and discover greater peace and food freedom. I’m an intuitive eater myself, and I know that when we trust our bodies and connect to our internal wisdom, we can focus on what really matters in life.

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My Philosophy

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I believe the connection we have with our bodies drives our emotions, behaviors, and health. If we’re out of touch with how we feel, we’re out of touch with what we need. A large part of this is interoceptive awareness—the ability to sense hunger, fullness, emotions, and bodily sensations—and noticing when we avoid those feelings and how that avoidance shows up in behaviors like emotional eating.

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If weight loss is your goal, I can absolutely support that—but we always start by exploring your relationship with food and body image. We focus on identifying what food is satisfying, tuning into hunger and fullness, and using those cues to guide your choices—instead of counting calories.

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I use a weight-neutral, food-relationship-first approach. That means we address co-occurring concerns like blood sugar, hormonal imbalance, fertility, or elevated cholesterol through the lens of healing your connection to food and your body first. From there, we explore gentle, nourishing nutrition changes.

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This is a self-compassionate approach that prioritizes your pleasure, body trust, and what you need and want in your life.

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What Weight-Neutral Means

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Even if your goal is weight loss, I take a weight-neutral approach because:

• Weight stigma is harmful physically and psychologically

• Telling someone to lose weight is a form of weight stigma

• Dieting increases the risk of disordered eating

• Dieting rarely leads to sustained weight loss

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Weight-neutral care means we don’t define your health or worth by a number on a scale. Instead, we focus on understanding your body, building trust, and creating a sustainable, personalized plan.

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For example, a client like “Jane” might want to lose weight for heart health. Instead of giving her a restrictive 1,200-calorie diet, I work with her on:

• Current intake, movement, sleep, and mindfulness habits

• Food and movement history

• Weight and health history

• Goals, routines, and stress management

• Body image, food relationship, and boundaries

• Desires, hopes, and health priorities

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Then we explore:

• Hormones and heart health from a nutritional and medical perspective

• A satisfying, sustainable, heart-healthy diet

• Nutrition strategies for perimenopause and root causes of her symptoms

• How she actually wants to eat and move

• How she wants to feel and manage stress

• Meeting unmet needs

• Balancing food values with life and health priorities

• Preparing meals she enjoys

• Releasing harmful thoughts or feelings about food and body

• Reconnecting with body cues and somatic wisdom

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Weight-neutral care is so much more than counting calories or macros. It awakens body trust, appreciation, and long-term health, while helping you feel empowered, nourished, and amazing.